ACT ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF SAFE LABORATORY ENVIRONMENT

CHAPTER I GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 1(Purpose) #

The purpose of this Act is to protect the health and life of research workers and create a safe research environment by ensuring laboratory safety in the fields of science and technology at universities, research institutes, etc. and providing proper compensation for damage caused by laboratory accidents, thereby contributing to promoting research activities.

Article 2(Definitions) #

The terms used in this Act are defined as follows: <Amended on Aug. 17, 2021; Oct. 31, 2023; Jan. 31, 2025>

1. The term "university, research institute, etc." means any of the following:

(a) A university, college, industrial college, teachers' college, junior college, air college, correspondence college, air and correspondence college, cyber college, or technical college under Article 2 of the Higher Education Act, a graduate school under Article 29 of that Act, a graduate university under Article 30 of that Act; a graduate university under Article 33 of the Act on the Establishment, Operation and Fostering of Government-Funded Science and Technology Research Institutes; a polytechnic college established under Article 39 of the National Lifelong Vocational Skills Development Act; the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology established under the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Act; the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology established under the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology Act; the Daegu-Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology established under the DaeguGyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology Act; or Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology established under the Act Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology Act;

(b) A national or public research institute;

(c) A research institute governed by the Act on the Establishment, Operation and Fostering of Government-Funded Science and Technology Research Institutes;

(d) A specific research institute governed by the Specific Research Institutes Support Act;

(e) A business-affiliated research institute or a department solely responsible for research and development recognized under Article 7 (1) of the Act on Support for Research and Development of Business-Affiliated Research Institutes, Etc.;

ACT ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF SAFE LABORATORY ENVIRONMENT

Article 1(Purpose) #

Article 2(Definitions) #

Article 3(Scope of application) #

Article 4(Responsibilities of the State) #

Article 5(Responsibilities of heads of research entities) #

Article 6(Master plans to create safe laboratory environments) #

Article 7(Laboratory Safety Deliberative Committee) #

Article 8(Informatization of safe laboratory management) #

Article 9(Designation and operation of laboratory directors) #

Article 10(Designation of laboratory safety and environment officer) #

Article 11(Laboratory safety management committee) #

Article 12(Formulation and observance of safety management regulations) #

Article 13(Guidelines on safety inspections and precise safety diagnosis) #

Article 14(Implementation of safety inspections) #

Article 15(Implementation of precise safety diagnosis) #

Article 16(Reporting and publication of findings of safety inspections and precise safety diagnosis) #

Article 17(Registration of safety inspection agencies and precise safety diagnosis agencies) #

Article 18(Obligations of persons who conduct safety inspections and precise safety diagnosis) #

Article 19(Implementation of preliminary risk analysis of hazardous factors) #

Article 20(Education and training) #

Article 21(Health examination) #

Article 22(Bearing of expenses) #

Article 23(Reporting laboratory accidents) #

Article 24(Conduct of investigations into accidents) #

Article 25(Restrictions on use of laboratories) #

Article 26(Subscription to insurance) #

Article 27(Submission of insurance-related data) #

Article 28(Certification of exemplary laboratories in safety management) #

Article 29(Support for universities and research institutes) #

Article 30(Designation and operation of regional safe research support centers) #

Article 31(Inspections) #

Article 32(Presentation of certificates) #

Article 33(Corrective orders) #

Article 34(Laboratory safety manager qualifications and tests) #

Article 35(Duties of laboratory safety managers) #

Article 36(Grounds for disqualification) #

Article 37(Sanctions against cheaters in tests) #

Article 38(Disposition of revoking or suspending license) #

Article 39(Reporting) #

Article 40(Confidentiality) #

Article 41(Delegation and entrustment of authority and duties) #

Article 42(Legal fiction as public officials for purposes of applying penalty provisions) #

Article 43(Penalty provisions) #

Article 44(Penalty provisions) #

Article 45(Joint penalty provisions) #

Article 46(Administrative fines) #